Wednesday, July 24, 2013

"late Middle English (in the sense 'deserving of pity or sympathy'): alteration of dialect seely
'happy', later 'innocent, feeble', from a West Germanic base meaning
'luck, happiness'. The sense 'foolish' developed via the stages
'feeble' and 'unsophisticated, ignorant.'"

Words, meanings and usages change all the time, and more so religious language in different cultures. Here is the full extract from a blog and source of this word, Silly:

Anyone who’s taken a linguistics class knows that “semantic drift”
happens. It just does. If it didn’t, we’d all still be speaking Latin
and Anglo Saxon. Vowels change, consonants drop off, lots of stuff
happens to Language, capital L, over time. You know what word I could
add to this list? “Silly.” Silly actually means “blessed.” Like: The
silly Virgin Mary. Technically that’s true, but over the last several
hundred years, the meaning has changed to mean, well, ‘silly’. So yeah,
this article is silly. Words mean what they communicate, period. Anyone
who says differently is selling something. -- A comment by Rick Widen @ 10 Words That You've Probably Been Misusing, by Tyler Vendetti

Monday, July 15, 2013

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Israel’s National Library has curated a special digital display of 30 rare Koran manuscripts that date from the 9th through the 19th centuries to mark the start last week of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. continue reading

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Multifaith Calendar

A source of accurate dates and descriptions of over
350 observances and events from 14 world religions: www.amssa.org

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